let's broaden the world's energy mix. let's go. >> gretchen: fox business alert. the labor department releasing brand-new weekly jobless numbers as they do every thursday morning. 359,000 first-time unemployment claims were filed last week. that's down from the week before and it is lower than expected. if my memory serves me correct lyrics we were in the 370s or 380s last time. >> steve: they were expecting 378,000. so it's about a little under 20,000 better than that. >> brian: 28 minutes before the top of the hour. >> gretchen: the other stories making headline, imagine seeing this person, look at your video screen. your tv. carrying what t like a grenade launcher in the middle of the street. it turns out it was all a hoax. police say 39-year-old michael dressed up his 16-year-old nephew because he wanted to test police response time after the dark knight movie massacre. police arrested the man nearly two months after the video was posted on youtube. mayor rudy guiliani off to the side line just passed out. >> steve: it was as if the hand of god turned the whee